Jamie Pachino, author of Bailiwick Repertory’s intriguing and exasperating “Theodora: An Unauthorized Biography,” sets no small goal: She wants to rescue the Byzantine Empress Theodora from centuries ...

Franklin and Eleanor. Juan Perón and Evita. Bill and Hillary. Husband and wife political teams are a common theme in modern history. Justinian “The Great” was born about 482 in a peasant village in ...

What do twentieth-century Ireland, Empress Theodora of Byzantium and travel have in common? All are the subjects of three literary ventures by a Northwestern novelist. Medill freshman Tory Fine is ...

Betancourt is a professor at University of California, Irvine, and author of Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages available now from Princeton University Press.

Empress Irene wore the purple robes reserved for royalty. She bore her only son, heir to the Byzantine crown, in the Porphyra, a special chamber lined with purple. And a generation later, when her son ...